An America is killed by lightning on average once a week. According to the National Weather Service, lightning kills an average of 49 people each year in the United States and injures hundreds more. In a nation of more than…
When the Biden administration’s feckless management of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan produced all too predictable chaos, the legacy media uncharacteristically reported on the debacle with remarkable candor. This was unsettling to a White House inured to obsequious coverage, and…
In this year’s unexpectedly successful offensive campaign, the Taliban mastered the “battle of the narrative” by linking propaganda and negotiation to its military operations in a way that not only exploited the Afghan government’s disunity and weaknesses, but also reinforced…
The Biden administration’s immigration polices are erratic. On the southern border, Biden reversed all of Trump’s polices and threw out a welcome mat to migrants. But he has not adopted the same porous policy in relation to Cuba. In July,…
That is a political truth that is very, very old. In most of the ancient world, information was tightly controlled. Only the powerful could be educated, for the point of education was to be able to come to one’s own…
Rylee McCollum, a 20-year-old U.S. Marine killed during the Kabul evacuation, was all liberal talking heads tell us to fear. Yet now the same media who call men like him toxic, disgraceful, and stupid mourn his death. But we don’t…
Glory and honor to the fallen in the Kabul bombing. Glory and honor to those Marines who defend the free world with courage and dedication, who fight our enemies, and resist, often despite the negligence of politicians. Love and prayers…
“The Democrats’ Job Posting,” editorial cartoon by Patrick Cross for The American Spectator, August 27, 2021.
